Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-31
THE LETTER OF THE LAW.
Which the Railroad Companies of the
Country will now be Com
PEELED to Follow.
The full and Complete Text of the Rea
ean-Cullum Interstate Commerce
Law Recently Passed by Con-
gress and to Go Into Effect
on the Fifth Of April.


interest to railway men and to the public
generally:
The provisions of this act shall apply
to any common carrier or carriers en-
gagged in the transportation of passen-
gers or property wholly by railroad, or
partly by railroad and partly by water
when both are used, under common con-
troll, management, or arrangement, for
continuous carriage or shipment, from
one state or territory of the United States,
or the District of Columbia, to any other
state or territory Of the United States, or
the District of Columbia, or from any
place in the United States to an adjacent
foreign country, or from any place in the
United States through foreign country
TO any other place in the United States,
and also to the transportation in like
manner of property shipped from any
place in the United States to a foreign
country and carried from such place to
port of trans-shipment, or shipped from
foreign country to any place lin the
United States and carried to such place
from port of entry either in the United
States or an adjacent country: Provided,
however, that the provisions of this act
shall not apply to the transportation of
passengers or property, or to the receiv
ing, delivering, storage, or handling of
property, wholly within one state, and not
shipped to or from a foreign country
from or to any state or territory as afore-
said.
SPECIAL RATES, REBATES, DRAWBACKS.
Sec. 2. That if any common carrier
subject to the prov ;3ions of this act shall
directly or Indirectly, by any special rate,
rebate, drawback, or other device, charge,
demand, collect, or receive from any per-
son or persons a greater or less compen-
sation for any service rendered, or to be
rendered, in the transportation of pass
engers or property subject to the proVis
ions of this act, than it charges, demands,
collects or receives from any other per-
son or persons for doing for him or them
like and contempOraneous service in
the transportation of a like kind of traf-
fic under substantially similar circum-
stances and conditions, such common
carrier shall be deemed guilty of unjust
discrimination, which is hereby prohibit
ed and declared TO be unlawful.
UNDUE OF UNREASONABLE PREFERENCES.
Sec 3. That it shall be unlawful for
any common carrier subject to the pro-
visions of this act to make or give any
vantage to any particular person, COM
pany, firm, corporation, or locality, or
any particular description of traffic. in
any res pect whatsoever, or to subject any
particular person, company, firm, cor
poration, locality, or any particular
description of traffic, to any undue or I'M
reasonable prejudice or disadvantage in
airy respecs whatsoever. Every common
carrier subject tie the provisions of this
act shall, according to their respective
powers, afford all reasonable, proper, and
equal facilities for the interchange of
traffic between their respective lines, and
for the receiving, forwarding and deliv-
ering of passengers and property to and
from their several lines and those con-
Meeting Herewith, and shall not discrim-
mate in their rates and charges between
such connecting lines; but this shall not
be construed as requiring any such COM
mon carrier to give the use of its track
or terminal facilities to another carrier
engaged in like business.
LONG AND SHORT HAUL
Sec. q. That tt shall be unlawful for
any common carrier subject to the pro-
visions of this act to charge or receive
any greater compensation in the aggre-
gate for the transportation of passengers
or of like kind of property, under sub
stantlally the same circumstances and
conditions, for a shorter than for a
longer distance over the same line, in the
same direction, the shorter being includ-
ed within the longer distance; but this
shall not be construed as authorizing anv
common carrier within the terms of this
act to charge and receive as great COM
pensatlon for a shorter as for a longer
distance: provided, however, that upon
application to the commission appointed
under the provisions of this act, such
common carrier may, in special cases,after
investigation by the commission be au-
thorized to charge less for longer than
for shorter distances for TRANSFORMATION
OF passengers or property; and the com
mlssloo may from time to time prescribe
the extent to which said designated COM
mon carrier may be relieved from the
operation of this section of this act.
POOLING OF FRRIGHrs.
Sec. 5. That it shall be unlawful for
any common carrier subject to the pro-
visions of this act to enter into any con-
tract agreement or combination witty anv
other common carrier or carriers for the
pooling of freights of different and COM
peting railroads, or to divide between
them the aggregate or net proceeds of
the earnings OF such railroads, or any
portion thereof; and in any case of an
agreement for the pooling of freights as
aforesaid each day of its continuance shall
be deemed separate offense.
RATES TO BE MADE PUBLIC.
Section 6. That every common carrier
subject to the provisions of this act shall
PRINT and keep for public inspection
schedules showing the rates and fares and
charges for the transportation of pas
sengers and property which any such
common carrier has established and
which are IN force at the time upon Its
raliroud, as defined by the first section of
this act. The schedules printed as afore-
said by any such common carrier shall
plainly state the places upon its railroad
between which property and passengers
will be carried, and shall contain the
classification of freight in force upon
such railroad, and shall also state sonar
ately the terminal charges and any rnles
or regulations which in any wise change.
effect or determine any part of the ag-
gregate of such aforesaid rates and fares
and charges. Such schedules shall be